Invited Speakers (In Person, June 13-14)

• Kate Davidson (Harvard)
• Elsi Kaiser (USC)
• Josh Knobe (Yale)

Invited Online Symposium on Language and Thought:

• Paul Pietroski (Rutgers)
• Sandra Waxman (Northwestern)
• Alexis Wellwood (USC)

Talks (In Person, June 13-14)

• Thomas Sostarics, Eszter Ronai, Jennifer Cole:
  Relating Scalar Inference and Alternative Activation: A view from the Rise-Fall-Rise Tune in American English
• Ugurcan Vurgun, Yue Ji, Anna Papafragou:
  Aspectual Coercion: A New Method to Probe Aspectual Commitments
• Paul Marty, jacopo romoli, Yasutada Sudo, Richard Breheny:
  On the salience of linguistic alternatives in the inference task for scalar implicatures
• Monica L. Do, James R. Kesan:
  Language Production for Source-Goal Motion Events: Factors Affecting Goal Mention
• Kristen Syrett, Misha Becker:
  Syntactic structure supports the acquisition of emotion and mental state adjectives
• Antoine Cochard, Angeliek van Hout, Hamida Demirdache:
  “Liz can buy a croissant or a donut… Both together, right?” Distinguishing target Free Choice from non-target Modal AND in Child French
• Anouk Dieuleveut, Ira Noveck:
  Devoir, or pouvoir, that is the question
• Hayley Ross, Najoung Kim, Kathryn Davidson:
  Fake reefs are sometimes reefs and sometimes not, but are always compositional
• Breanna Pratley, Jed Sam Guevara, Adina Camelia Bleotu, Kyle Johnson, Brian Dillon:
  Both Principle B and Competition Are Necessary to Explain Disjoint Reference Effects
• Julian Grove, Aaron Steven White:
  Modeling the prompt in inference judgment tasks
• Ankana Saha, Yağmur Sağ, Jian Cui, Kathryn Davidson:
  Mandarin demonstratives as strong definites: An experimental investigation
• Yifan Wu, Helena Aparicio:
  Disagreements do not automatically raise the standard of precision
• Alexandros Kalomoiros, jacopo romoli, Matthew Mandelkern, Florian Schwarz:
  Presuppositions project asymmetrically, unless they don’t
• Morwenna Hoeks, Maziar Toosarvandani, Amanda Rysling:
  Focus slowdowns arise due to the computation of alternative sets, not unpredictability

Talks (Online, June 12)

• Fabienne Martin, Florian Schäfer, Despina Oikonomou, Felix Gölcher, Artemis Alexiadou:
  The `no-agent’ scalar implicature triggered by anticausatives is stronger when the causative alternative is structurally-defined
• Michelle Denise Olvera Hernández, Asela Reig Alamillo:
  Context and connective effects on the processing of concessive discourse relations: a VWP experiment
• Mathias Barthel, Rosario Tomasello, Mingya Liu:
  Prediction and integration of discourse-level meaning are functionally related: EEG and reading time evidence
• Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Nicole Gotzner:
  The effect of standards on scalar implicature processing of gradable adjectives: A web-based eye-tracking study
• Natalia Talmina, Barbara Landau, Kyle Rawlins:
  Pragmatics of spatial language comprehension
• Noa Attali, Lisa Pearl, Gregory Scontras:
  Navigating ambiguity: The usefulness of context and prosody for naturalistic scope interpretations

Posters (In Person, June 13-14)

• Natalia Jardon, Elena Marx, Eva Wittenberg:
  Perfect ever after: An empirical investigation of tense-based event construals in English and Spanish
• Sven Smeman, Maaike Smit, James A Hampton, Yoad Winter:
  Counting uncountables and measuring countables – unpreferred, not ungrammatical
• Daiki Asami, Chao Han, Jacob Burger, Deanna Dunlop, Yue Lu, Effah Yahya M Morad, Chenyue Zhao, Arild Hestvik:
  ‘Negation-blind’ N400 disappears when priming is controlled
• Hyewon Jang:
  A type of sarcasm that current theories fail to explain — evidence from sarchasm
• Zarina Levy-Forsythe, Aviya Hacohen:
  On a grammaticized lexical count-mass distinction in classifier languages: Experimental evidence from Tashkent Uzbek
• Adina Camelia Bleotu, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bilbiie, Lyn Tieu:
  Coloring disjunction in child Romanian
• Adina Camelia Bleotu, Andreea Nicolae, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bilbiie, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu:
  A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction
• Yuli Feng:
  On the Interpretational Flexibility of Mandarin Chinese Dabufen
• Premvanti Patel, Kristen Syrett, Athulya Aravind:
  Using bounds set by modals to investigate the status of partial objects and count nouns
• Angela Cao, Aaron White, Dan Lassiter:
  Graded Causatives
• Chiara Saponaro, Desiré Carioti, Maria Teresa Guasti:
  Talking about Distributivity: How Cognitive Factors Influence Children’s Language
• Cassandra Kim, Ariel Starr:
  From words to memory: Evidence of language guiding motion event reconstruction
• Andrea Beltrama, Joyce He, Florian Schwarz:
  It’s not just Imprecision: Stereotypes guide Vagueness Resolution in Implicit Comparisons
• Andrea Beltrama, Joyce He, Florian Schwarz:
  Integrating social information into pragmatic reasoning in real time
• Ebru Evcen, David Barner:
  Already Perfect: Conditional Statements
• Sol Lago, Petra Schulz, Esther Rinke, Elise Oltrogge, Carolin Dudschig, Barbara Kaup:
  Insensitivity to truth-value in negated sentences: does linear distance matter?
• Christian Muxica, Jesse Harris:
  Context rather than semantic priming drives the early availability of focus alternatives
• Leah Doroski, Raquel Montero, Maribel Romero:
  Spanish Neg-raising: Always in the mood for Neg-raising, sometimes in the mood for NPIs
• Giuseppe Ricciardi, Kevin Reuters:
  Exploring the Agent-Relativity of Truth
• Shenshen Wang, Chao Sun, Richard Breheny:
  Getting to the Truth is More Cognitively Demanding – Another Look at the Role of Working Memory in Negation Processing
• Lyn Tieu, Yawovi Godo, Lydia Mei, Andreea Nicolae:
  Experimentally investigating the strengthening properties of disjunction in French: When exclusivity meets free choice and ad hoc implicatures
• Shaokang Jin, Richard Breheny:
  Priming relevant and non-relevant features in metaphorical and literal contexts
• Silvia Curti, Desiré Carioti, Maria Teresa Guasti:
  Do all Telic-Perfective Sentences (Always) Culminate? An Exploratory Study on Event Culmination in Italian Monolingual Adults.
• Eleanor Muir, Simge Topaloglu, Jesse Snedeker:
  The Role of Working Memory in Scalar Implicature Computation in ADHD and Non-ADHD Individuals
• Mieke Slim, David Barner, Roman Feiman:
  Learning the logic in language: Acquiring the meanings of all, every and each
• Mingya Liu, Stephanie Rotter:
  Semantic and Social Meaning Match: experiments on modal concord in US English
• Mieke Slim, Roman Feiman, Mora Maldonado:
  Priming between universal quantifiers in negated scopally ambiguous sentences
• André Eliatamby, Lyn Tieu:
  The role of definiteness in ad hoc implicatures
• Elizabeth Coppock, David Beaver, Emily Richardson:
  Ordering is not ranking: A study of ordinals vs. degree modifiers in nested definites
• Sarah Hye-yeon Lee, Anna Papafragou:
  Conceptual Signatures of Atomicity Across Languages
• Sarah Hye-yeon Lee, Anna Papafragou:
  Cross-domain event primitives are reflected in motion verb learning across languages
• Chao Sun, jacopo romoli, Yasutada Sudo, Richard Breheny:
  Putting donkeys into context
• Fabian Schlotterbeck, Polina Berezovskaya:
  Less-comparatives must be less ambiguous than exactly-differentials, experimental data shows
• Emil Eva Rosina, Kristina Liefke:
  Experientiality markers in memory reports: A semantics-pragmatics puzzle
• Letizia Raminelli, Desirée Carioti, Jakob Wünsch, Maria Teresa Guasti:
  Assessing scalar meaning: a first exploratory study on some Italian focus particles
• Yoolim Kim, Carolyn Jane Anderson:
  Parenthesized Modifiers in English and Korean: What They (May) Mean
• David Strohmaier, Simon Wimmer:
  Contrafactives, learnability, and production
• Jonathan Palucci:
  Pseudo-scoping out of tensed clauses: cumulation vs. buildups
• Irene Mognon, Amber L. Marree, Petra Hendriks:
  Reduced sensitivity to underinformativeness? Using a ternary judgment task to assess scalar implicature generation in L2 and L1
• Anton Benz, Torgrim Solstad, Oliver Bott, Martin Kahnberg, Andrea C. Schalley:
  A conceptual analysis of verbs of pushing and pulling
• Ghyslain Cantin-Savoie, Grégoire Winterstein, Denis Foucambert:
  The effect of context on the online processing of adversatives: an eyetracking study
• Daniel Asherov, Gabor Brody, Vincent Rouillard, Athulya Aravind:
  Pragmatics of human-AI communication
• Karl Mulligan, Kyle Rawlins:
  Identifying QUDs in Naturalistic Discourse
• Katherine Howitt, Colin Phillips, Jeffrey Lidz:
  4 year old children really do know the strong crossover constraint
• Tiana V. Simovic, Craig Chambers:
  Pronoun Interpretation Reveals the Robustness and Flexibility of Perspective Reasoning
• Laila Johnston, Daniel A. Smits, Ellie Pavlick, Roman Feiman:
  The Structure of Ad-Hoc Alternatives
• Christiana Moser, Bahar Tarakcı, Ercenur Ünal, Myrto Grigoroglou:
  Conceptual and language-specific effects on multimodal recipient event descriptions
• Erying Qin, Richard Breheny, Chao Sun:
  Does ‘a couple’ pattern with scalars or numbers – Insights from the inference and ‘so’ tasks
• Vic Tianlan Wen, Kirby Conrod, Dan Grodner:
  Online Processing of, and Adaptation to, Nonbinary Pronouns
• Robin Lemke:
  Investigating fragment usage with a gamified utterance selection task
• Lilia Rissman, Sebastian Sauppe, Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Anna Merin Mathew, Kamal Kumar Choudhary, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Balthasar Bickel:
  Do speakers of nominative vs. ergative languages think about Agency in different ways?
• Qiawen Liu, Gary Lupyan:
  Why is “tree skin” better than “human bark”: Semantic centrality predicts asymmetries in metaphorical extensions

Short Online Talks (Poster equivalent; June 12)

• Sebastian Walter, Stefan Hinterwimmer:
  An experimental investigation of perspective alignment in gesture and speech
• Radim Lacina, Nicole Gotzner:
  Only the (informationally) stronger survive: A probe recognition study with scale-mates and antonyms
• Stephanie Solt, Roland Mühlenbernd, Mariya Burbelko:
  Social meaning and pragmatic reasoning: The case of (im)precision
• Chengjie Jiang, Ruth Filik:
  Expecting the unexpected: Examining the interplay between world knowledge and context in relatively unconstraining scenarios
• Kurt Erbach, Cornelia Ebert, Magnus Poppe:
  Experimental findings for a cross-modal account of dynamic binding in gesture-speech interaction
• Hyewon Jang:
  A type of sarcasm that current theories fail to explain — evidence from sarcasm
• Nitzan Trainin, Einat Shetreet:
  ‘Exhausting’ Theory of Mind resources impairs speaker-specific lexical alignment
• Zhuang Qiu, Casey D. Felton, Zachary Nicholas Houghton, Masoud Jasbi:
  The Effect of Experimental Paradigms on Scalar Implicature Estimation
• Anna Teresa Porrini, Luca Surian, Nausicaa Pouscoulous:
  The importance of speaker knowledge and cooperation in priming scalar implicatures
• Shirly Orr:
  The lying/misleading distinction from the viewpoint of truth evaluators
• Oliver Bott, Torgrim Solstad:
  Abductive inferences in causal discourse: Evidence from eyetracking during reading
• Sebastian Walter:
  Indirect discourse as mixed quotation: Evidence from self pointing gestures
• Yasutada Sudo, Lisa Bylinina, Stavroula Alexandropoulou:
  Priming acceptability judgments of NPI any
• Paola Pinzón-Henao, Jennifer Barbosa, Angelina Pasquella, Paul Muentener, Laura Lakusta:
  Development of Mechanistic Support Language in Spanish Speakers in Colombia
• Anna Pryslopska, Titus von der Malsburg:
  Towards a psycholinguistic model of bracketing paradoxes
• Emily Sadlier-Brown, Carla Hudson Kam:
  Evaluating context-independent meaning in two English discourse particles
• Benjamin Weissman:
  How does a speaker’s intent to deceive affect scalar inference and lie judgments?
• Inbal Kuperwasser, Einat Shetreet:
  Group membership impact on referential communication
• Muffy Siegel, Florian Schwarz:
  Local Accommodation Continues to be Backgrounded
• Casey D. Felton, Masoud Jasbi:
  Quantifying Non-Implicature Sources of Disjunction Exclusivity